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IP Legal Services has conducted patent searches, and drafted and filed biotechnology and pharmaceutical patent applications. To see examples of our published and granted patents, please view our posted list of biotechnology and pharmaceutical patents. |
| Biological or Pharmaceutical Prior Art Search Process |
IP Legal Services conducts prior art searches using the commercial Thomson Innovation(A Thomson Reuters Product) Patent Search Engine |
The following information is required by the patent attorney for conducting a prior art search for a Biological or Pharmaceutical patent application |
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Preliminary description of pharmaceutical or biotechnology invention |
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List of processes integral to the pharmaceutical or biotechnology invention |
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Elements and compositions involved in the processes of the pharmaceutical or biotechnology invention |
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Reactions involved in the processes of the pharmaceutical or biotechnology invention |
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Results of reactions with the details of the product composition of the pharmaceutical or biotechnology invention |
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Compositions in terms of parts per weight of the pharmaceutical or biotechnology invention |
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Structure of each element of the pharmaceutical or biotechnology invention. |
| Biotechnology or Pharmaceutical Patent Application Process |
The following information is required by the patent attorney for drafting a Pharmaceutical or Biotechnology patent application: |
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Current state of the art |
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Treatment methods used in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology invention |
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Advantages of pharmaceutical or biotechnology inventive concept over the current art |
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Structural diagram or process flow diagram of the pharmaceutical or biotechnology invention |
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A detailed description of processes or compositions of the pharmaceutical or biotechnology invention |
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Drug/chemical compositions in terms of parts per weight of the pharmaceutical or biotechnology invention |
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Details of elements involved of the pharmaceutical or biotechnology invention |
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Subelements involved of the pharmaceutical or biotechnology invention |
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Industrial application of the pharmaceutical or biotechnology invention |
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| General U.S.PTO Statistics of Biotechnology or Pharmaceutical Patents |
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The innovations in Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology maybe broken down into antibiotics, anti- cancer therapy, anti-sense technology, anti-viral therapy, cardiovascular therapy, gene therapy, monoclonal antibodies and vaccines, biological control agents and pesticides. |
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| The U.S. Patent Office has granted approximately 2,62,565 biotechnology patents. |
Just to give you a quantitative picture, there are about 47,017 antibiotics patents, 8,672 anti cancer therapy patents, 12,185 anti sense technology patents, 15,504 biological control agents and pesticides patents, 34,099 cardiovascular therapy patents and 96,973 gene therapy patents. That’s a lot of patents! |
